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MeatEater Conservation

Ep. 192: Legislation, Contemplation, and Call to Action

MeatEater Conservation

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness, Education

4.99.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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This week, Cal talks about what once was Green-land, a 2 million year old poplar, legislation, and so much more.

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0:00.0

From mediators' world news headquarters in Boseman, Montana, this is Cal's We Can Review

0:08.1

presented by Steel.

0:10.3

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0:13.2

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0:16.5

Now here's your host, Ryan Calcane.

0:22.4

You've heard of drug sniffing dogs, police dogs, hunting dogs and sled dogs, but did

0:27.4

you know that some canines earn a living as conservation dogs.

0:32.6

Conservation dogs have been around since the 1990s and are usually dispatched by biologists

0:38.0

to look for rare and elusive species.

0:41.2

One of these dogs, a brown and white pedinco canario named Slater, like how the owner's

0:47.0

balance out the fancy name with the name out of Point Break, found himself in the news

0:51.4

recently for detecting a rare species of seabird on Hawaii's Big Island.

0:57.8

Wildlife experts from the US Army and Colorado State University had been trying to learn

1:02.2

more about the Ake Ake or Band Rumped Storm Petrol, a small endangered seabird that spends

1:09.0

most of its life at sea and returns to land only to breed.

1:13.2

There's only one known breeding colony on the Big Island and scientists have only been

1:17.7

able to detect six burrows in that colony.

1:21.1

The birds make their homes on Hawaii's hard volcanic landscape and they only leave the

1:25.6

burrows at night to search for food.

1:28.2

To make matters worse, the volcanic activity makes thermal imaging virtually useless and

1:33.5

audio recorders can only tell biologists that the birds are in the general area.

1:38.6

Without any way to pinpoint exactly where the birds are living, finding one of their

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